At the Digital Infrastructures for Research Conference in Krakow, Poland, we had the opportunity to talk with Yannick Legré, Director of EGI, the European-rooted federation for advanced computing and data research. EGI's aim is to serve the research communities in Europe and provide them with the necessary resources to overcome the scientific challenges. Leer más sobre EGI to finalize service catalogue and ISO certification »

The e-IRG has published the draft of its 2016 Roadmap. It is now requesting comments in an open consultation. It is open for everyone to provide comments. These will be collected and published and used to prepare the final version of the e-IRG Roadmap 2016. The Open Consultation closes on 2016-11-10. The final Roadmap 2016 will be published on 2016-12-05. Leer más sobre e-IRG requests comments on its 2016 Roadmap in open consultation »

On October 4th 2016, ESFRI launched its Roadmap 2018 update to identify new Research Infrastructures of pan-European strategic value for the long-term needs of the European science and innovation communities in all areas of research. Leer más sobre Towards the ESFRI Roadmap 2018 Update »

In Cape Town (Kaapstad) South-Africa, ICRI 2016 started. This event brings policy makers from accross Europe and Africa together to discuss the progress and developments of research Infrastructures. e-IRG has a joinded booth with ESFRI. We also created a virtual goody bag with background information and impressions. Leer más sobre ICRI 2016 started in South-Africa »

Germany has become the latest country to join ELIXIR, following the ratification of the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). Leer más sobre Germany joins ELIXIR »

At the Open Science Conference, organized April 4-5, 2016 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, e-IRG Chair Sverker Holmgren participated in the panel under the theme "Open Science - Dare to Share". Sverker Holmgren presented e-IRG as a body of national delegates from Member States and associated countries. e-IRG reflects on the future of e-Infrastructures in Europe, on what type of resources are... Leer más sobre Open Science needs a coherent data infrastructure system, says Sverker Holmgren »

On March 10th, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) will present the 2016 ESFRI Roadmap on Large Scale Research Infrastructures during a one-day conference in Amsterdam. The venue will be the Trippenhuis Building, the headquarters of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Leer más sobre ESFRI to organize Roadmap 2016 launch event »

The most recent edition of the e-IRG Workshop was organized 24-25 November 2015 at the new Belval campus in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. The theme of the meeting was "The Building Blocks of the e-Infrastructure Commons". For those of you who want to refresh their minds on the topics presented by the different speakers at the workshop and want to relive the sparkling panel discussion, the... Leer más sobre Belval e-IRG Workshop videos now available »

During the e-IRG Open Workshop, recently held in Belval/Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, we had the opportunity to talk with Mehmet Mirat Satoglu from ULAKBIM, the Turkish Academic Network and Information Center. Mehmet Mirat Satoglu is a new member to the e-IRG Delegates Meeting. He is the Director of TUBITAK, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. TUBITAK supports services... Leer más sobre Turkey to prepare itself for European Open Science Cloud »

In the Horizon 2020 session at ISC 2015 in Frankfurt, Germany, Chair Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos from the European Commission introduced four speakers: Jean-François Lavignon from Bull, Sergi Girona from PRACE, François Bodin from IRISA, and Karen Padmore from HPC Wales. But first, Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos started out by sketching the key HPC developments in the European Union. In 2012, a report... Leer más sobre ETP4HPC, EXDCI and SESAME Net - new HPC initiatives in Europe's Horizon 2020 »

At the e-IRG Workshop, held in Riga, Latvia, on June 3, 2015, we had the opportunity to interview Sergio Andreozzi, Strategy and Policy Manager in the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI), on the topic of the Open Science Commons. Leer más sobre Moving up to an Open Science Commons »

The e-IRGSP4 project has created a 15-minute video introduction to e-IRG. e-IRG is a European advisory group on e-Infrastructures on a European scale. The video is on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/127725381 . You can also download a PDF version from the e-IRG website: http://e-irg.eu/documents/10920/283008/General+e-IRG+Presentation.pdf (25 Mbyte). Leer más sobre An introduction presentation on the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group »

The European Commission has published a "European Charter for Access to Research Infrastructures". e-IRG was one of the contributors to this charter. Research Infrastructures include e-Infrastructures such as PRACE (supercomputers), GEANT (Networking), EGI (Cloud federation), IDGF (Crowd computing) and many others. The Charter sets the basis for a common understanding of what an... Leer más sobre e-IRG contributes to European Charter for Access to Research Infrastructures »

The new edition of the first e-IRG newsletter in 2015 is now available for download. Highlights include summaries of the e-IRG Delegates Meetings in Milan, Rome and Riga, and the e-IRG Workshop in Rome; an overview of the new e-IRG Guidelines Document; summaries of the OpenAIRE 2020 kick-off meeting, the EC Workshop "From platform operators to service providers", the Cloudscape VII Conference,... Leer más sobre First e-IRG newsletter in 2015 available »

The new edition of the e-IRG newsletter is now available for download. Highlights include summaries of the e-IRG Workshops in Vilnius and Athens, and the joint e-IRG-ESFRI workshop; an overview of the update process for the ESFRI Roadmap 2016; summaries of the European Research e-Infrastructures and Innovation Clusters Workshop, the Third EUDAT Conference, and the Research Data Alliance... Leer más sobre New edition of e-IRG newsletter available »

As you may have noticed, the e-IRG has a new web presence. Over the years the web site has grown considerably, but the design stayed the same. With the new design we tried to organise the information in a more logical way. The most important change, however, is that we adapted the lay-out of the web site, using responsive design techniques, in such a way it can also be easily accessed... Leer más sobre New e-IRG web presence »

Sverker Holmgren from the Division of Scientific Computing at Uppsala University in Sweden, has been re-elected as e-IRG Chair for a new period of two years. Congratulations to Sverker Holmgren for a successful new term at the head of the e-IRG organisation. Leer más sobre Sverker Holmgren re-elected as e-IRG Chair »

On November 13, 2014, e-IRG Delegate Enzo Valente offered a presentation on the e-IRG White Paper and Cultural Heritage at the Conference on Research Infrastructure and e-Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage in Rome, Italy. The slides are available at http://www.otebac.it/internationalconference/getFile.php?id=36. More information about the conference can be found at ... Leer más sobre Enzo Valente talks about e-IRG White Paper 2014 and Cultural Heritage »

In the e-IRG Newsletter, issued on October 2013, you can read about: Report of the Workshop in Dublin on the 22th-23th of May 2013 e-IRG White Paper 2013 e-IRG Task Force Report on Legal Issues EUDAT Conference on Rome on the 28th-30th of October 2013 Service Management Standards for EGI Survey on Research Data Management by SIM4RDN-project ... Leer más sobre The e-IRG newsletter of October 2013 published »

The e-IRG Roadmap 2012 outlined a vision for the future of e-Infrastructures in Europe. Now, the e-IRG has published its 2013 White Paper, which takes the discussion one step further and proposes specific next steps. To meet the challenges of implementing the 2020 Strategy, Europe needs an “e-Infrastructure Commons” for knowledge, science and innovation. It should be open and accessible, and... Leer más sobre e-IRG White Paper 2013 published »

The report investigates the legal barriers of using e-Infrastructures in Europe. Between December 2012 and May 2013 a Task Force of the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) considered the legal and regulatory issues likely to arise from the increasing use of state-funded e-Infrastructures by non-state funded researchers and organisations. Such use, on a national and international... Leer más sobre e-IRG Task Force Report on Legal Issues published »

Around 100 participants attended the e-IRG workshop organized in Amsterdam on 3-4 December 2012 during the Cyprus EU Presidency. Data, in all its forms and contexts was the main focus of the workshop, a topic which is evident in the renewed e-IRG strategy. The workshop was organised with both plenaries and parallel tracks in the areas of trust, foundations, content, services and... Leer más sobre e-IRG Amsterdam Workshop Summary Published »

In the 1st issue of the e-IRG Newsletter of 2013 you can read about Report of the Workshop in Amsterdam on 3-4 December 2012 e-IRG Roadmap 2012 Best Technology Innovation Award How GÉANT paves data highway for nuclear fusion energy research The scientific impact of publicly-funded Infrastructures The observatory for Research... Leer más sobre The 1st issue of the e-IRG Newsletter of 2013 published »

The e-IRG Roadmap 2012 outlines a vision for the future of e-Infrastructures in Europe. To meet the challenges of implementing the EU’s 2020 Strategy, this vision outlines Europe’s need for a single “e-Infrastructure Commons” for knowledge, innovation and science as a living ecosystem that is open and accessible and continuously adapts to the changing requirements of research. This Roadmap... Leer más sobre e-IRG Roadmap 2012 published »

The launch of the first Plenary of the Research Data Alliance will take place March 18-20, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is being formed as a global community-driven organization to accelerate data-related innovation through research data sharing and exchange. Broad community engagement and targeted efforts are critical to the RDA's success and we invite you to... Leer más sobre Invitation: The first plenary of the Research Data Alliance in March 2013 »

In the 4th issue of the e-IRG Newsletter of 2012 you can read about Open Workshop in Amsterdam: e-IRG Meeting on Data Issues Summary of the e-IRG Workshop 11–12 June 2012, Copenhagen e-IRG Policy Paper on Scientific Software Cloud Computing for research and science Bridging the Gap: OpenAIRE Links Publications and Data First EUDAT conference took place in Barcelona... Leer más sobre The 4th issue of the e-IRG newsletter published »

e-IRG has published a report which presents cloud computing in a holistic way, elaborates its applicability for research and science, investigates related policy aspects and provides policy recommendations. The future of cloud computing for research and science appears to be hybrid: the first service is a hybrid e-Infrastructure cloud for research composed by a distributed community cloud.... Leer más sobre An overview on cloud computing for research and science published »

e-IRG has published a Blue Paper on data management. It provides an assessment of Europe’s e-Infrastructure service portfolio, and identifies the opportunities and challenges involved. Blue Paper reports on current trends and issues and sets out policy recommendations for several key areas, especially for ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) projects. e-Infrastructure... Leer más sobre Final version of the Blue Paper on Data Management published »